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i judge poor grammar


created: Jun. 12, 2008

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group owner: allison842 | Contact

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I just wanted to extend a big welcome to all the new members and a thank you to all of you who have contributed your pet peeves. They are all so true and obnoxious!

In case anyone wants to create a blog, I've made you all editors!! Share the pain. :-) 

I am going to start posting blogs on occasion that have helpful grammar tips or explain difficult constructions or rules. Anybody is welcome to do the same.


about i judge poor grammar

Plainly and simply, this group is for those of us who judge others when they use poor grammar. It happens a lot on GOLO!

We can excuse the occasional typo or even the misspelling of difficult words, but consistently poor grammar is unacceptable to us! Subject-verb agreement is just proper etiquette. Punctuation is not against the law! Don't know the difference between adjectives and adverbs? You don't belong!

This is all in good fun of course. :-)

Other pet peeves:
Lose vs. Loose
Your vs. You're
It's vs. Its
Effect vs. Affect
They're, Their, There
i.e. vs. e.g.
Lie vs. Lay
Then vs. Than
"Would of" instead of "Would have"
Breathe vs. breath

Do you have other pet peeves? Need an explanation for something? You've come to the right place. Let it out...






yougottabekidding

wife-of-a-concrete-man

dejanupe

dmt1231

just laura




Sincerely Your's (posted Aug. 29 8:48 a.m.)
Grammar correction man beaten to death (posted Aug. 17, 2008)
grammar group: effect and affect (posted Aug. 13, 2008)
grammar group: punctuating with quote marks (posted Aug. 3, 2008)
Grammar group: which vs. that (posted Aug. 1, 2008)


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grammar group: effect and affect
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I love the group! I have an essay I'd like to share, but I don't see how to create a group blog. Am I just missing something easy?

Allison - the cartoons are fabulous!

This may not be about grammar, but it is worth noting. I just registered for GOLO. When I looked at my profile, I saw that not of the capitalization carried over. I wrote and email and got the reply

"All letters default to lowercase within GOLO. It was a style decision, and one way to separate it from WRAL.com."

Is that a "style" decision???

e e cummings would love this

dale

I may have missed something here - I just got an email from some web-type person at a Kansas City news station who insists that saying "busted out" is perfectly proper grammar. Did somebody decide that was legal tender in the English language now?

braintreebrat,

If you wouldn't have told me, I wouldn't have known.

LOL

Just joking. ;)

how in the hell do ise join this group? i and me wife hate peeple that cant' speel or be smart. Know i now that we smart people can have fun to, without nudity. I love it and hope we can party sometime. Let's have ham and egg's and devise games only for peeple who aren't illiturit.

My BIGGEST pet peeve is the proper use of the conditional tense. I shudder when I see it misused! If I was an editor... I'd be cracking heads over it! *smile*

Thanks..

DBDFL, the proper way is still 'My husband and I went' because those are subjects (I is a subject; me is an object). The reason I gave that example and explanation above is because it seems to go against using 'me' as the object of a verb. But what the explanation shows is that in that particular example, 'Morgan and I' kind of IS the subject, just in reversed order.

The verb TO BE is very complicated in the English language (as that example with 'were' demonstrates).

allison842, Thanks for taking the time to explain this. I'll grasp the example sooner or later, i'm sure. So, is the proper way to say------My husband and I went or me and my husband went?

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